You can create new folders on the iPhone using the New Folder button in the toolbar, and you can delete a file by selecting it and clicking on the Delete button. (Note that PhoneView has no Trash area once you delete a file, it’s gone from the iPhone for good. Inspired by his experience working with Bruce McBrien and Amesbury Elementary School’s Tech Helpers, Ken conceived of Code & Circuit as a way to give back to the community, and inspire a new generation of computer scientists and careers in programming.PhoneView thus displays a confirmation dialog when you try to delete a file.) You can also rename items you’ve copied to your iPhone, a feature I requested in my original review. Actually, Chris was the same friend who we sold rocks with 20 years earlier.Īfter receiving a degree in computer science from Wheaton College, Ken worked writing code for Avid Technology, and in 2002, co-founded software company Ecamm Network. Printopia was a successful collaboration with a fellow computer programmer. We designed and wrote it over a weekend, and expected it to be so successful, (hence the name, which we have to change to comply with Apple’s copyright on the name iPhone) It’s now one of our more popular apps. PhoneView started out as iPhoneDrive in 2007, at the very beginning of the iPhone. Which made the Apple iSight camera not look terrible. This was so much demand that at one point it was actually being bundled with webcams. People didn’t have to go out and get a new webcam, just to use iChat. Quite simply it was “the software that makes our website work with iChat.” THat’s a great example of a product that solved a simple problem, elegantly, and affordably. It was a moderate success, but nothing like the next one: iChatUSBCam. This was when we realized there was a great market opportunity for Mac add-ons. It was neat, if you got a message while you were on the other side of the dorm room, you could listen to it as it came in. It did one simple thing, it added text-to-speech capability to iChat. Meanwhile, Ken was writing his first Mac app sales was an add-on called iChatter. Definitely one of the best things we ever did, and we still use this system 10 years later They did a ton of business through Pilotgear and other stores, but eventually set up our own store, that let them process credit cards with no middle man. Palm, the company, started using it to distribute software and patches. It solved a lot of issues with Palm Pilot app installation, and became the de facto way of creating installers. Another utility, “Nutshell” let you create self-expanding installers for Palm OS. The operating system severely limited what could be beamed, and BeamPRO solved that problem. We sold that for years.Īnother was a utility that let you send things to other devices using infrared beaming. It was the world’s biggest hack, but people loved it. The most popular was TrekSounds, which added Star Trek sound effects to the Palm Pilot. I guess that could be considered Ecamm’s first software sale.Įarly on they did a bunch of Palm Pilot apps. Well, the next day, he had $6.40 in the account! They kept 20% of the revenue and mailed the rest to developers. He put it up on, which was kind of like an App Store for Palm Pilots. He sold his first app, a Palm OS app for astronomers to calculate the position of the stars, while at Wheaton. Glen Aspeslagh is co-founder of Ecamm Network. They make PhoneView, Call Recorder for Skype, Printopia and iGlasses for Mac. Their strategy: If an app is useful, well designed and properly maintained, it will sell itself, without the need for clever advertising and glitzy marketing.Įcamm is a leading provider of Mac software. Glen and Ken Aspeslagh are twin brothers from Massachusetts that hatched Ecamm in the late nineties with a simple goal of building apps to solve problems. They have been honored as Best in Show at Macworld and most of their apps have been featured in Macworld magazine.īusiness Mentors, Tools, Books mentioned:Ī little background about Glen and Ken Aspeslagh: Glen did midnight puppet shows in the freshman dorms with his twin brother Ken as an outlet for their creativity. > What were some of the challenges on their entrepreneurial journey? >What was it like early on when they were trying to get their first customers? >How did they come up with their business ideas and know it was worth it to pursue ? >How did they transition from full time jobs to going out on their own? Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:11:46 - 82.1MB)ĭownload Here> “Right click” here for the mp3
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